Hello all. My name is Jeremy. I own several milsurps including a couple Mosins, an SKS, and a German P38. I’m selling the P38 though to fund another project. I don’t really shoot my 1934 91/30 hex and I don’t want to put too much more wear on it. There’s nothing wrong with it, but I just want to keep it in good shape. I keep it clean and oiled. I shoot the heck out of my m44. After having some physical issues following the army I did some ergo mods to make it easier to shoot for me. My Yugo SKS is an excellent shooter too. After years of keeping it in its original military configuration I put it into an SG Works stock. It cut down a lot on the weight and balanced it. Again, the decision was made because of physical limitations. I know a lot of people knock those stock sets, but it’s the best firearm accessory I’ve ever bought.

I learned a LOT from the old site surplusrifle.com back in the day when Jamie and Donna Mangrum were running it. I don’t know if this forum stemmed from that site, but I see a lot of the knowledge is the same. I look forward to gleaning knowledge from the forum.

I learned a LOT from the old site surplusrifle.com back in the day when Jamie and Donna Mangrum were running it. I don’t know if this forum stemmed from that site, but I see a lot of the knowledge is the same.

Most certainly it did - the first incarnation of this site did originate from surplusrifle.com - those were the good 'ol days.
Yes, many of us still here today owe our interest in milsurps to that original site.

I learned a LOT from the old site surplusrifle.com back in the day when Jamie and Donna Mangrum were running it. I don’t know if this forum stemmed from that site, but I see a lot of the knowledge is the same.

Most certainly it did - the first incarnation of this site did originate from surplusrifle.com - those were the good 'ol days.
Yes, many of us still here today owe our interest in milsurps to that original site.

Yes this is the same forum.
Just some softwear and server changes over the years since 2003.
Infact I was member #151 on the very first forum.
One of our oldest rules is, It is your rifle , You paid for it, You can do what ever you want with it. If someone else dosent like it, Tough!
After all it is one of millions upon millions, made as expendable battlefield tools. Not rare works of art.

Now that dosent mean you might get a "little" grief if you just trashed some super rare version or model.
But other then that, every firearm that gets modified, just increased the value of the untouched model in a collector vault.

Burner wrote:Yes this is the same forum.
Just some softwear and server changes over the years since 2003.
Infact I was member #151 on the very first forum.
One of our oldest rules is, It is your rifle , You paid for it, You can do what ever you want with it. If someone else dosent like it, Tough!
After all it is one of millions upon millions, made as expendable battlefield tools. Not rare works of art.

Now that dosent mean you might get a "little" grief if you just trashed some super rare version or model.
But other then that, every firearm that gets modified, just increased the value of the untouched model in a collector vault.

That’s all good to know the only rifle I made modifications to that I can’t undo is to my M44. The stock was pretty chewed up so I sanded it down and painted it with a textured paint. Then I added a pistol grip because I needed some ergonomic changes after getting messed up.

The other is my sks, but nothing permanent was done to it. First I put one of those Tapco T6 stocks on it after getting one off a guy who couldn’t get it to fit his. Mine dropped right into it. At the time I was glad he didn’t know how to use a dremel. After that I put it into an SG Works bullpup stock. It took a couple pounds off and balanced it better making it easier for me to shoot. I still have the original stock and parts if I had to put it back to original military config.